Ukrainian resistance in Russian-occupied Ukraine

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Ukrainian resistance in Russian-occupied Ukraine
Part of the Russian invasion of Ukraine
Date 1 March 2022 – present (2022-03-01 – present) (2 years, 1 month, 3 weeks and 5 days) Location Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine Status Ongoing
Belligerents
Ukraine	Russia  Donetsk People's Republic  Luhansk People's Republic Russian occupied Kharkiv Oblast Russian occupied Kherson Oblast Russian occupied Zaporizhzhia Oblast Russian occupation of Crimea Russian occupied Mykolaiv Oblast
Commanders and leaders
Decentralized	Vladimir Putin Sergei Shoigu Valery Gerasimov Denis Pushilin Leonid Pasechnik Collaborator officials
Units involved
Popular Resistance of Ukraine[1] Berdiansk Partisan Army[2] Yellow Ribbon[3] Atesh[4] SBU[citation needed] Special Operations Forces[3]	Russian Armed Forces Rosgvardiya OMON FSB Russian Border Guards Police of Russia Ukrainian collaborators Donetsk People's Militia Luhansk People's Militia Defected policemen
Casualties and losses
Unknown	190+ soldiers and policemen killed (partisan claim) 6+ border guards killed 18+ officials killed 2 helicopters damaged

During the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Russia occupied vast portions of the territory of Ukraine, having already occupied parts of the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts as well as the entire Autonomous Republic of Crimea since the beginning of the Russia-Ukraine war in 2014. Partisan groups began to be organized in mid-2022.^[5] These groups have been involved in intelligence-gathering, sabotage, and assassinations. Much of their activity has taken place in the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions.